Research Opportunities
Dr. M. Chaiken:
· Contact Info:
- Dean of the Honors College
- (575) 646-2005
- mchaiken@nmsu.edu
· Area of Research:
- International Humanitarian Medical Responses
Research
· Interested in speaking with students one-on-one
about possibilities, including international internships.
Dr. F. Nedjat-Haiem:
· Contact Info:
- Associate Professor, School of Social Work
- CHSS, Rm 203D
- (575) 646-1243
- haiem@nmsu.edu
- nedjatha@gmail.com
· Area(s) of Research:
- Health care providers
- Individuals who are chronically ill, and helping
those individuals decide on an appropriate course of action for their physical
and mental care
· Student Work:
- Students would assist with analyzing data,
(collected via surveys, among other ways), writing papers, creating posters,
etc.
- Undergraduate students could also work in
conjunction with graduate researchers.
- Students could help with projects or observes
meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays (times pending)
Dr. S. Rao:
· Contact Info:
-
Professor
and Graduate Certificate of Public Health Coordinator, Department of Public
Health Sciences
-
CHSS 303K
-
(575)646-6714
·
Area(s)
of Research:
-
Research
in mental health, substance use, suicide prevention, and medical community issues
-
Grants in
mental health substance
·
Student
Work:
-
Could
utilize undergraduate assistant’s w/ data collection and analysis, literature
reviews
Dr. J. McDonald
· Contact Info:
- Professor of Public Health Sciences: San Fulton
Endowed Chair in Health Disparities Research, Director of the Southwest Institute for Health Disparities
Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
-
CHSS
335/202A
-
jillmcd@nmsu.edu
·
Area(s)
of Research:
-
Maternal
& Child Health; Epidemiology
-
Focus on
U.S. Hispanic Population
-
Breast
Cancer
-
Border
Region Health Disparities pertaining to maternal & child health
·
Student
Research seminars held every 3 weeks, on Wednesday
-
College
of Health and Social Services Building, Rm 202
Dr. J. Xu:
· Contact Info:
- Associate Professor, Department of Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 469
- (575) 646-7713
- jxu@nmsu.edu
· Area(s) of Research:
- Malaria, mosquitos research and control efforts
to keep malaria rates low.
- Insecticides are also utilized
- Novel strategies are being developed
·
Dengue
fever mosquitos
·
Mosquito
traps around campus
·
Precipitation
increase has increased the risk
·
Virus may
travel from Mexico, since rates have increased there.
- Are NM/US mosquitos susceptible to the same
viruses inhabiting Mexican mosquitos?
· Surveys on local mosquitos
· Dr. Hansen and Dr. Hanley
Dr. T. Wright:
· Contact Info:
- Professor, Co-Director for HHMI, Department of
Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 375
- (575) 646-1136
- wright@nmsu.edu
· Away from campus for Fall 2017 Semester; Spring
2018*
Dr. G. Unguez:
· Contact Info:
- Professor, Department of Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 461
- (575) 646-7963
- gunguez@nmsu.edu
· Area(s) of Research:
- Plasticity (change) of the Nervous system,
Regeneration, Neuromuscular system, neurons phenotype adoption, electrical
activity of a neuron and how it translates into changes in gene expression.
·
Works now
with electric fish.
- Pre-Med at UCLA, led to Parkinson’s research,
·
Works
with monkeys, rats, cats, and mice
·
Pharmacology
and behavior; neurotransmitters.
Dr. C. B. Shuster:
· Contact Info:
- Professor, Director of Molecular Biology
Graduate Program, Department of Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 463
- (575) 646-1325
- cshuster@nmsu.edu
Dr. E. Serrano:
· Contact Info:
- Regents Professor, Co-Director of NIH RISE,
Associate Director of NIH BRAiN, Department of Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 459
- (575) 646-5217
- serrano@nmsu.edu
· Area(s) of Research:
- Biomedical & Neuroscience
Dr. P. Lodato:
· Contact Info:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Foster Hall, Rm 369
- (575) 646-2382
- plodato@nmsu.edu
· Only accepts students who have passed (BIOL 479)
Medical Microbiology with a good grade
Dr. S. Ferrenberg:
· Contact Info:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Office(s):
·
Office:
Foster Hall, Rm 367
·
Lab:
Foster Hall, Rm 350
- (575) 646-4003
- ferrenbe@nmsu.edu
· Area(s) of Research:
- Ecologist & Dendrologist
· Student Work:
- Interested in having students in the lab
starting Spring 2018